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Old 06-12-2015, 09:23 AM
 
Location: O4W
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He is trying to bring reliable transit to a county that doesn't realize they need it if they want to continue growing. He knows Cobb County needs it, but the majority of voting citizens are too hard headed to know.

Like I have said a million time so here, all Cobb County and MARTA have to do is draw up a MARTA heavy rail map and a timetable on when it would be done. Cobb County would vote it in by 67% at a minimum
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Old 06-12-2015, 09:25 AM
 
Location: Kirkwood
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Like I have said a million time so here, all Cobb County and MARTA have to do is draw up a MARTA heavy rail map and a timetable on when it would be done. Cobb County would vote it in by 67% at a minimum
No, because the residents do not want to pay for it. They would gladly take a MARTA HRT Line for free, but do not want to pay the sales tax.
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Old 06-12-2015, 09:26 AM
 
Location: O4W
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No, because the residents do not want to pay for it. They would gladly take a MARTA HRT Line for free, but do not want to pay the sales tax.
If you believe that ok
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Old 06-12-2015, 09:35 AM
 
Location: Kirkwood
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If you believe that ok
I hear it all the time, they do not want to pay for it. They point to CCT as an example, citizens complain it is slow, never on time, and goes nowhere they want to go. If CCT was better funded, maybe they could afford to run buses more often than every 30 minutes during peak hours and on Sundays. CCT 10 is full and guess where it goes? To MARTA.
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Old 06-12-2015, 09:41 AM
 
Location: O4W
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I hear it all the time, they do not want to pay for it. They point to CCT as an example, citizens complain it is slow, never on time, and goes nowhere they want to go. If CCT was better funded, maybe they could afford to run buses more often than every 30 minutes during peak hours and on Sundays. CCT 10 is full and guess where it goes? To MARTA.

They don't want to pay for a $hitty bus service. If they had this plan below to vote for it would pass easily

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Old 06-12-2015, 09:47 AM
 
Location: Kirkwood
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They don't want to pay for a $hitty bus service. If they had this plan below to vote for it would pass easily
They already pay for crappy bus service. MARTA isn't going to spend the millions on a study when there is not a chance of the sales vote passing. MARTA knew Clayton had a chance to approve it, so they spent the money. Why can't Cobb County spend the money for it's own HRT study or at least highlight the corridors the citizens think they would like to see service, then let MARTA analyze it and give it's feedback?
MARTA has way too much going on in it's service area to focus attention on a county that has been historically hostile to it.
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Old 06-12-2015, 11:45 AM
 
Location: Prescott, AZ
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They already pay for crappy bus service. MARTA isn't going to spend the millions on a study when there is not a chance of the sales vote passing. MARTA knew Clayton had a chance to approve it, so they spent the money. Why can't Cobb County spend the money for it's own HRT study or at least highlight the corridors the citizens think they would like to see service, then let MARTA analyze it and give it's feedback?

MARTA has way too much going on in it's service area to focus attention on a county that has been historically hostile to it.
It would be nice, but that would require Cobb (or maybe CCT) to spend the initial planning money instead of MARTA, which won't happen since they don't have it, and wont be able to get be able to get it. The stink of MARTA's past performances is also still thick in the air in many areas, tainting anything touching the service no matter what's happening now.

I applaud Mr.Lee for his attempts at pushing transit, all be it in a shady fashion, but I'm convinced that his BRT Light is doomed from day one. You don't need to look further than MARTA's memorial drive service to see it's nothing more than a more expensive normal bus service. Cobb needs to be able to vote this one down, before it does more harm than good for the image of transit in the county.
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Old 06-12-2015, 11:51 AM
 
Location: Prescott, AZ
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They don't want to pay for a $hitty bus service. If they had this plan below to vote for it would pass easily.
(Oh hey!)

I'm not convinced that it would pass so easily, especially considering how much it would cost to build HRT or even LRT along the Cobb Pky corridor. There's not a consistent median and there's no room on either side of the road. HRT would have to be tunneled under, or built over new medians, forcing the whole street to be repaved.

Same deal for LRT. It's not that it wouldn't probably be for the best, but that the real price of the effort would be shocking to a county that isn't used (and even to those who are) to the kind of effort it takes to build HRT/LRT.
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Old 06-12-2015, 10:29 PM
 
Location: Georgia
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If you believe that ok
No it's absolutely true, I'm afraid.
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Old 06-13-2015, 08:59 AM
 
Location: Ono Island, Orange Beach, AL
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They don't want to pay for a $hitty bus service. If they had this plan below to vote for it would pass easily
Vote to pay for it how?
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